Which is the first bank in India?
Answer: B
It was the Bank of Hindustan.
Founded at Calcutta in 1770 by the agency house of Alexander and Company, it was the first bank in India in the modern sense, and failed in 1832.
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Which is the oldest and largest monastery in India?
Answer: A
It is the Tawang monastery.
Tawang Gompa in Arunachal Pradesh, founded in the 1680s, is the largest monastery in India and the second largest in the world after Lhasa's Potala. It houses several hundred monks and an 8 m gilded Buddha.
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Highest Waterfalls in the world ?
Answer: C
They are the Angel Falls.
Kerepakupai Meru in Venezuela drops 979 m from the Auyan-tepui, with an uninterrupted fall of 807 m. So much of the water turns to mist on the way down that little of it reaches the base in the dry season.
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Which is the oldest church in existence in India?
Answer: C
It is St Thomas Church.
The church at Palayur in Kerala traces itself to the mission of the apostle Thomas in 52 CE, and is held to be the oldest Christian foundation in India. St Francis Church at Kochi, of 1503, is the oldest European-built church.
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Which is longest tributary river of India ?
Answer: B
It is the Yamuna.
The Yamuna runs 1,376 km from the Yamunotri glacier to its confluence with the Ganga at Prayagraj - the longest tributary of any Indian river, and longer than most rivers that reach the sea on their own.
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Which was the earliest dynasty in India?
Answer: D
It was the Shishunaga dynasty.
Of the four named, the Shishunagas of Magadha in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE are the earliest. The Guptas followed in the fourth century CE, the Chalukyas in the sixth and the imperial Cholas in the ninth.
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Which is the largest freshwater lake in India?
Answer: A
It is Wular.
Wular in Kashmir is the largest freshwater lake in India. Chilika is a brackish lagoon, Sambhar a salt lake, and Loktak, though freshwater, is much smaller.
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Smallest Bird in the World ?
Answer: B
It is the hummingbird.
The bee hummingbird of Cuba is 5 to 6 cm long and weighs under 2 grams. Its heart beats over 1,200 times a minute in flight, and it must feed every ten to fifteen minutes through the day.
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Which is the shortest national highway in India?
Answer: A
It was NH-47A.
NH-47A ran only 6 km, from Ernakulam to the Kochi port at Willingdon Island - the shortest national highway in India under the old numbering.
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Which is the highest concrete gravity dam in India?
Answer: B
It is the Bhakra dam.
Bhakra on the Sutlej stands 226 m, the highest concrete gravity dam in India and the second highest in Asia. Nehru called it the temple of resurgent India. Tehri is higher but is an earth and rockfill dam.
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